perfectly serene. Great job.

very beautiful!your image is very realistic, especially the lights and shadows! good luck, author!

It looks very nice

Nice one! Wish you luck author!

I like this image

Love the concept, but your SBS doesn't show how you assembled the elements, and the islands are all basically the same. Try to introduce a little variety.

you're right, I tried to differentiate a bit, by the way I add some more details as the tunnel, birds ... thanks for your comments

I like that with the islands you're also telling a story. Good job!

thanks, tried to be a bit unusual in a subject as seen, and there are many castles, lol

I really like this entry with the waterfall.... I gave it a high score (lol... my vote don't mean much) but something about the formation under the waterfall... needs something... so it doesn't seem out of place???

The arch connecting the two pieces of land, doesn't need to be there. It simply doesn't fit in the image. What is that large piece of rock falling from the waterfall???
I would suggest you remove both of those items. Good Luck.

The stairs are too oversized...

thanks i realy like if the arch and the stairs can stay to gif this image a real view that the poeple realy can reach this private island i have make som changes

oooohhh very nice author, this is actually pretty well blended, i would love to visit if it was real ! lol

thanks crystle

Intriguing image, but I'm not sure that having the floating island be secondary in the background demonstrates a full commitment to the theme. Overall, the image seems a tad flat. More shadows/contrast would add more drama. I just don't know what I should be focusing on (the title suggests the hand, although probably that's really just an allusion to what the hand is holding--but the image itself should provide some guidance).

How is a hand being in my image, causing it to not be on theme? Please explain this to me when there are others in this contest where an island isn't even in the image!!!! Have we all forgotten Surreal interpretation??

Surreal or no, the theme is "Floating Island," not "hand holding stuff." Do you know what the word "island" means?
From Mirriam-Webster (http://www.merriam-webster.com/ ):
Definition of ISLAND
1
: a tract of land surrounded by water and smaller than a continent

In this contest, instead of being surrounded by water, the ISLAND is floating, be it in air, space, or ether (the heavens).
A hand is not an island.

No "forgetting" surreal, so much as not buying a poor excuse for it.

Nice idea..but slightly of theme..good luck

Mossy don't try to insult me by providing a link to the dictionary! My "vision" on this was a hand reaching out of the sky, scooping the island up....Sorry you can't see past your own definition of things

I like the butterfly steeling part of the island the best, good luck author

i personally saw for myself the hand was meant to be scooping up the island. i thought it was a wonderful expression .. and in art expression of ones imagination is key to good work.. i support this image and its originality. . some people should look beyond their own tastes sometimes.

The interpretation is wide open. For a butterfly...it is floating. Unsteady ground. This doesn't seem limited to islands as we know it.

Good luck to your entry author!

This island is not floating !

Thanks for all the comments.....I am so glad everyone is so stirred up over a "floating island"!
I have seen the nasty side of people this week over an image...Kinda sad really....Especially since this is for fun..........Best of Luck to all of you

Try to blur the hard edges on the trees in the background. What's the source for the waterfall?

thanks for the tip CMYK. i dunno how the waterfall source missed the cut.. but it has been corrected along with the blurring of the trees

thanks again